Resume

Drive the Hubber experience to reduce friction and time-to-productivity, increase engagement, and enable all Hubbers (GitHub employees) to do their best remote work.

• Onboarding - Reimagined company-wide onboarding to accelerate new hire time-to-productivity and engagement.
• Learning and development - Elevated continuous learning programs, including AI fluency initiatives, to upskill employees across the organization.
• Communications - Own internal synchronous (events) and asynchronous (written) communications to keep a globally distributed workforce informed and aligned.
• Offsites - Orchestrate the global Hubber Offsites program, bringing distributed teams together to strengthen collaboration and culture.
• Automation - Streamline critical business processes through automation and AI to reduce operational friction and improve efficiency.

• Technical business operations - Established and led a team of seven “Mini Chiefs of Staff” — business technologists supporting Engineering executives to improve department-level and org-wide operations through internal communication, data-driven decision-making, escalation-based initiative management, and strategic planning.
• Operational excellence - Drove smooth execution of vendor and budget management, workforce planning, and business operations across the entire Engineering organization. Streamlined processes and systems to reduce administrative friction and improve the overall Hubber experience.
• Organizational health - Defined, shaped, and improved Engineering culture, values, and organizational health. Fostered diversity and engagement to create a safe, inclusive environment where Hubbers feel they belong and can do their best and most productive work.
• Communication - Designed and implemented organizational async communication patterns to significantly improve information discoverability for globally distributed teams, leveraging AI to increase signal-to-noise ratio for developers. Limited disruption through empathetic change management.
• Engineering advocacy - Served as Engineering ombudsperson, discovering, capturing, and advancing the needs of engineers and engineering managers across the organization, driving org-wide improvements and serving as a conduit for feedback to leadership.
• Automation - Championed automation to reduce friction across Engineering. Led development of a suite of tools automating internal communications, weekly reporting, headcount tracking, rhythm of business, and cultural touchstones.

• Office of the CSO - Established, documented, and matured repeatable “rhythm of the business” processes for critical business functions, ensuring smooth organizational operations while managing internal, external, and executive communications.
• Organizational effectiveness - Improved effectiveness of the Chief Security Officer and organizational leaders by establishing communication patterns and meeting cadence, and diagnosing and resolving inefficient systems and processes.
• Portfolio management - Managed the Chief Security Officer’s portfolio of responsibilities through coordination and facilitation of in-flight efforts, and identified, analyzed, and mitigated ongoing program risk.
• Strategy and culture - Shaped the organization’s vision, long-term plans, OKRs, and strategic documents; guided leaders in carrying out strategic intent; and established and socialized organizational culture, values, and behavioral expectations.
• Strategic advisory - Served as strategic advisor and counsel to the Chief Security Officer, delivering data-driven recommendations that brought clarity and direction to drive execution, and represented the CSO in cross-functional leadership forums.
• Relationship and brand management - Championed transparency, consistency, and thoughtful execution, leading through persuasion and influence to position the Security Organization as a critical partner that increased the likelihood of initiative success.

• Led organization-wide business readiness efforts for GitHub AE, GitHub’s managed enterprise SaaS offering, ahead of general availability for customers in high-compliance industries.
• Managed business functions across multiple releases of GitHub Enterprise Server, GitHub’s on-premises enterprise offering, introducing process maturity around reporting, risk management, release coordination, and cross-team communication to support subsequent release cycles.
• As a founding member of GitHub’s Technical Program Management organization, developed a GitHub-based weekly program reporting process adopted by all program managers to communicate program status, milestones, risks, and mitigations to company executives.
• Oversaw removal of third-party analytics cookies from all GitHub-owned domains, eliminating the need for non-essential cookie consent banners and strengthening privacy guarantees for customers.

• Led community, safety, privacy, product security, and platform health efforts for a software development platform with more than 50 million customers and 100 million projects.
• Shipped more than 500 staff- and user-facing features and policies spanning community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, account security, platform health, and open source workflows — including Community Guidelines, third-party analytics removal, terms of service acceptance, DMCA takedown and abuse reporting, personal data portability, illegal content detection (PhotoDNA), role-based access controls, namespace reuse prevention, phishing-resistant 2FA, email privacy, digital legacy planning, intellectual property ownership, domain verification, comment edit history, code of conduct detection, minimized comments, time-limited blocks, and repository interaction limits.
• Piloted Associate Product Management program to shape GitHub’s product culture, providing product-minded thinkers inside the company an entry-level position with a defined promotional path to Product Manager.
• Established Open Source Customer Advisory Board, bringing together forward-thinking customers representing community projects, industry groups, corporate open source programs, and underrepresented communities to build a shared perspective on the future of open source and drive product roadmaps.
• Served on the Technology Hiring Committee, ensuring interview processes were rigorous, unbiased, and consistent across the organization to hire the best candidate for each role.

• As member of the inaugural class of high-profile White House initiative, served as entrepreneur in residence reimagining the role of technology in brokering the relationship between citizens and government while injecting startup-like culture within government.
• Described by the US Chief Technology Officer as “the baddest of the badass innovators,” and by the White House Director of Digital Strategy as “lightning in a bottle”.
• Shipped four distinct open-source products from conception to production within six months, spanning research, prototyping, usability, development, testing, and stakeholder outreach using then-atypical API-first architecture.
• Ensured compliance with the Privacy Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Federal Information Security Management Act, including drafting multiple formal notices on behalf of the government for publication in the Federal Register.

• Drafted, coordinated stakeholder outreach for, and drove the release of the President’s Digital Government Strategy, a fundamental reimagination of the role of technology in the public sector.
• In response to presidential mandate requiring the release of open source software, coordinated and led negotiation of contract for code-sharing services, including creation of records management plans under both the Federal Records and Presidential Records Acts.
• Briefed senior White House officials on legal implications and licensing considerations surrounding the creation of government-funded open-source software collaborations.
• Prepared the US Chief Information Officer for public appearances including speech writing and messaging.
• Developed technical roadmap, prototyped, and implemented first-of-its-kind mechanism for agencies to report progress on the Digital Government Strategy.